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I spotted this bike strung with lights on the wall of a bike shop on Oranienburger Strasse in Berlin on the way home from dinner at Ruben & Carla after walking with Gilly as he filmed his Berlin am Abend – Berlin in the Evening video. I originally posted this as an iPhone photo on Instagram and […]
I love this Berlin am Abend video on Gilly’s Playground shot on a snowy Saturday evening in Berlin. Gilly made the video of typical Berlin sights and scenes to show off the Hauptstadt and I think it looks like a great advert for the city. Look out for the bit at 28 seconds where the ‘Soviet […]
This photo was taken during a holiday in Berlin 2010 as I lay on my back on the cobblestones in front of Alexanderplatz station getting some very strange looks. Watching the sunset from the Fernsehturm was one of my highlights of 2012.
The Hotel Adlon in Berlin is most famous as the site of the Michael Jackson ‘baby dangling incident’. The singer held his baby ‘Blanket’ over the railing of his balcony on Behrenstrasse (out of shot) to the horror of those gathered below. The hotel occupies a prime spot in Berlin with views over the Brandenburger […]
A statue of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, who co-wrote The Communist Manifesto, on the Marx-Engels-Forum in Berlin.
The Fernsehturm is without doubt the most iconic building in Berlin and at 368m dominates the skyline. Naturally, as the tallest building in a flat city it affords wonderful views over Berlin, with one disappointment – you can’t see it when you’re inside it. There are other spectacular viewpoints in Berlin from which it can be seen […]
This photo of the Ferris Wheel near Alexanderplatz in Berlin, set up as part of the Berliner Weichnachtszeit Christmas Market, was taken from a spot near the base of the Fernsehturm, as the sun began to set on an autumn evening. Click here to see an image of the same Ferris Wheel at night.
The Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park is one of the most impressive sights in Berlin in any weather but adding a blanket of snow takes the wow factor up a notch. The memorial, which covers an area of about 100,000 square metres is also a cemetery – 5,000 of the approximately 80,000 soldiers killed […]
This shot of the Berlin skyline at night was taken form the viewing platform of the Französischer Dom (French Cathedral) on Gendarmenmarkt as I took photos of the Weihnachtsmarkt Zauber for my Christmas Markets in Berlin – 5 Stars post.
Walking through Schloss Charlottenburg felt almost like stepping back in time. In my head, I could hear Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (neither had been composed when the Schloss was first erected) playing as Kings and Queens entertained their guests. The rooms of the Schloss are beautifully and often sumptuously decorated, though much […]
